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resurrectionism en · NOUN

Etymology

From resurrection + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Belief in, or the event of, a person being resurrected from the dead.
  2. (historical, uncountable) Graverobbing.
    • Ironically, resurrectionism was not a crime in the 1800s, and both men would never have fallen foul of the law if graverobbing was their only enterprise; certainly, Burke would never have received the death penalty. 2011, Martin Conaghan, Burke & Hare: